Daily Economy
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Why A Carbon Tax Won’t Work in the Real World
Carbon taxes may sound like an efficiency improvement in the abstract, but their political implementation is a mess.
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The Blockchain Movement Is Dead, Long Live the Blockchain Industry
With perfect hindsight, we construct narratives about how technology changes the world. The internet flattened the world. Cars replaced horses. But what we miss, the often-catastrophic messiness during those transitions, is so much more interesting.
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In Praise of Carbon Fuels
Carbon-based fuels have powered modern economic growth – growth which is, by far, history’s greatest benefactor of humanity.
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Targeted Tax Incentives: Perverse and Ineffective
Often firms that receive these targeted incentives are subject to little or no accountability, and they rarely create the number of jobs or the hourly wage rates they promise.
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How the Shutdown Has Affected Tariff Exemptions
The government shutdown should serve as a reminder of the dangers of all government regulation, especially when the regulators block the freedom to trade, promise to make exceptions, and then fail to perform at all.
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What a Real “Libertarian Experiment” Looks Like
The libertarian movement, in all its diversity, spends a lot more time arguing for less government than it does advocating better, smaller, more-voluntary private institutions of governance.
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Ludwig von Mises as the Victim of Quinn Slobodian’s Intellectual Dishonesty
This is a slipshod attempt to taint and tarnish the reputation of one of the leading economists of the 20th century, and one of the most consistent and outspoken defenders of the classical liberal ideal of political, social and economic liberty and the free society.
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Economic Controls Turn Regular People Into Criminals
When government regulates and legislates, it is not causing some imagined form of social uplift for the masses toiling under the terrible demands of freedom. It is instead making more criminals out of people who just want to live a better life.
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Climate Change and the Power of Scaremongering
The credulous manner in which cavalier economic predictions are made and the misuse of statistical methods makes me wonder at the level of care used in the other statistics cited in the global warming debate.
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Straightforward Facts About the American Economy
The American economy will continue to improve only if markets are left sufficiently free to overwhelm the innumerable obstructions, diktats, and other burdens that governments, at all levels, inflict on us as we attempt to peacefully pursue our commercial and household affairs.
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Why A Carbon Tax Won’t Work in the Real World
Carbon taxes may sound like an efficiency improvement in the abstract, but their political implementation is a mess.
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•
The Blockchain Movement Is Dead, Long Live the Blockchain Industry
With perfect hindsight, we construct narratives about how technology changes the world. The internet flattened the world. Cars replaced horses. But what we miss, the often-catastrophic messiness during those transitions, is so much more interesting.
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•
In Praise of Carbon Fuels
Carbon-based fuels have powered modern economic growth – growth which is, by far, history’s greatest benefactor of humanity.
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•
Targeted Tax Incentives: Perverse and Ineffective
Often firms that receive these targeted incentives are subject to little or no accountability, and they rarely create the number of jobs or the hourly wage rates they promise.
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•
How the Shutdown Has Affected Tariff Exemptions
The government shutdown should serve as a reminder of the dangers of all government regulation, especially when the regulators block the freedom to trade, promise to make exceptions, and then fail to perform at all.
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•
What a Real “Libertarian Experiment” Looks Like
The libertarian movement, in all its diversity, spends a lot more time arguing for less government than it does advocating better, smaller, more-voluntary private institutions of governance.
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•
Ludwig von Mises as the Victim of Quinn Slobodian’s Intellectual Dishonesty
This is a slipshod attempt to taint and tarnish the reputation of one of the leading economists of the 20th century, and one of the most consistent and outspoken defenders of the classical liberal ideal of political, social and economic liberty and the free society.
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•
Economic Controls Turn Regular People Into Criminals
When government regulates and legislates, it is not causing some imagined form of social uplift for the masses toiling under the terrible demands of freedom. It is instead making more criminals out of people who just want to live a better life.
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•
Climate Change and the Power of Scaremongering
The credulous manner in which cavalier economic predictions are made and the misuse of statistical methods makes me wonder at the level of care used in the other statistics cited in the global warming debate.
-
•
Straightforward Facts About the American Economy
The American economy will continue to improve only if markets are left sufficiently free to overwhelm the innumerable obstructions, diktats, and other burdens that governments, at all levels, inflict on us as we attempt to peacefully pursue our commercial and household affairs.